The Dusty Bookcase

A JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA'S FORGOTTEN, NEGLECTED AND SUPPRESSED WRITING

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01 October 2014

Montrose en français: une enquête de Russell Teed

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"La surprise de l’automne", writes  Le Devoir critic Michel Bélair . Indeed, it is. Tomorrow sees publication of  Meurtre à...
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29 September 2014

The Double Flame Mystery

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The first of five sent by Welland bookseller Steven Temple , this photo of James Benson Nablo's The Long November has had me pourin...
28 September 2014

Canadians Need Not Submit

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Before anyone gets too excited, I should point out that this ad comes from the September 1924 issue of The Goblin . The Toronto Sunday W...
22 September 2014

Terrible, Just Terrible

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A Terrible Inheritance Grant Allen New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, [ c. 1890] A Terrible Inheritance is by far the worst Grant Allen I...
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Brian Busby
A writer, ghostwriter, écrivain public, literary historian and bibliophile, I'm the author of Character Parts: Who's Really Who in CanLit (Knopf, 2003), and A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Translator, Memoirist and Pornographer (McGill-Queen's UP, 2011; shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize). I've edited over a dozen books, including The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco (Véhicule, 2013) and George Fetherling's The Writing Life: Journals 1975-2005 (McGill-Queen's UP, 2013). I currently serve as series editor for Ricochet Books and am a contributing editor for Canadian Notes & Queries. My most recent book is The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis, 2017), a collection of revised and expanded reviews first published here and elsewhere.
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